Sprint officially announces Epic 4G Froyo update to begin Feb 21

yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus....& he's f#@%ing late. oh well.

Will I receive the update if I'm rooted? Is there a way I can "unroot" my phone back to Eclair?

too late. will be looking elsewhere for my next phone. samsung you lost a customer here.the timing of it right after announcing the galaxy s2 only frustrates me further.

Thank the maker! This oil bath is going to feel so good.

I'll still buy Samsung just because they do build nice stuff.

Cool!! I just upgraded to the Epic from my Samsung Intercept... boy did I hate that phone... I mean the Epic's screen is just gorgeous! The only complaint is that my screen is kinda loose on its left side but read that all peoples Epics screens have gotten loose. But anyway I'm glad I only have to wait like a week to get Froyo while others have waited quite a few months lol. Hope this fixes the GPS and battery issues!

All I have to say is YAAAAAAAYYY!!!!!! My girlfriend has been busting my a$$ for a few months, since she has an Evo. I tell ya, one more crack about not having flash and I would've had to shut down her line. Ha! I'm just glad we don't have to update through KIES.

I am really tired of the whiners stating they will never buy Samsung again. Which manufacturer has the first Gingerbread phone? Yup..Samsung. As for praising the Evo for having 2.2 months ago by HTC, guess which phone will never get Froyo...HTC Hero. Obviously it is not entirely Samsung's fault if all the non-US Galaxy S phones received their upgrade months ago. Let's put some blame where it belongs...the carriers. T-Mobile got their upgrade first so are you going to jump carriers too? Use your heads for something other than a hat rack. Read a little...educate yourselves.

For all we know its just going to be delayed again i dont care i left sprint and went over to t-mobile bought an unlocked pre 2 and all is good happy again web os 2.0 is NICE

Finally! I've been waiting about 3 months for this update, and I know others have been waiting more like 6 months, since the day the Epic launched. It's taken long enough to get this update done, and I think it's long overdue, but at least it's finally coming next week. Hopefully updates for the other US Galaxy S phone onwers still waiting on Froyo won't be too far behind.

We're still a version behind though, since Gingerbread's out already. I'd like to see Samsung/Sprint jump on that and get us another update (faster than this one took), because I think that high-end, expensive phones like the Epic really should be keep up-to-date so they're on the leading edge. I don't think anyone's made an official statement about whether the Epic will get Gingerbread, though I understand it's capable of running it, so we'll have to wait and see. Froyo should satisfy me for a while -- apps to SD and Flash were the main things I wanted, and the other things like GPS improvements should help the phone all around. But yeah, I'd like the latest version of the OS too, so I'm hoping Gingerbread comes out eventually.

@gitit20 -- Considering there's an official announcement from Sprint, I seriously doubt that the Froyo release will be delayed again.

@cb2367 -- I don't know anything first hand about these kinds of updates, because the Epic is my first Samsung (and my first Android) phone. But from what I've read around the web, Samsung's history has given them a reputation for being a one-update company, which wouldn't favor us getting Gingerbread. I'm sure there are other factors, but I suspect that this one (Samsung's track record) is a main reason some people suspect we won't see 2.3.

it's completely unbelievable to me how long it has taken Sprint to make a public statement about the upcoming update; and I noticed late last night that the official response from Samsung twitter regarding the 2.2 update was still "we will let you know as soon as we have a firm date," as though they had not yet received word about the projected 02/21 update.

i got my epic 5 mo's ago, with the same understanding millions of us had early on: the promised 2.2 update (variously advertised, or spoken directly at point of purchase wherever these phones were sold, not a maybe, but rather a contingency of the sale). Like a lot of us, I realized after 6 or so weeks that the likelyhood of an immediate update would not be necessarily forthcoming, and moved on with other more pressing issues.

basically, i like the epic very much: the screen resolution and other features are pretty nifty, but i already own high-definition equipment so it's pretty much a no-brainer where the value of the phone is -- namely its ability to run the latest and greatest android apps, as we all hoped it would. As things stand, will look forward to the update and will be making serious considerations in future about making this type of business mistake ever again.

1521 Eastern time and still nothing...